Multi-Cities, Co-Cities, networked Geo-urbanities: urban challenges among centuries

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Manuel Gausa Navarro
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2024/108-109
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 30-42 File size 782 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2024-108003
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Since the beginning of the 21st century and with the era of the digital revolution, a new relational logic (based on complex processes) has replaced the old (com) positional logic. A logic that requires close collaboration with new technologies, but above all with the prefixed 5ins – Information + Interaction + Interconnection + Integration + Innovation – of a substantial equation for a new way of defining spaces, cities and habitats. This text covers the challenges (and the main research) that have supported the birth and evolution of this new Advanced Urbanism or ‘of Complexity’. The concept of n-Cities is therefore articulated through the various periods of the last thirty years, looking at the old concept of morphology and transferring it to new, more logomorphic interpretations.

Keywords: n-Cities; multi-cities; advanced urbanism

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Manuel Gausa Navarro, Multi-Cities, Co-Cities, Geo-urbanità in rete: sfide urbano-territoriali tra secoli in "TERRITORIO" 108-109/2024, pp 30-42, DOI: 10.3280/TR2024-108003